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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"
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Emotion as Heterostasis A different view is held by
the US computer scientist Harry Klopf: organisms are not hiding in the environment, trying to minimize
action and change; they actively seek stimulation. If homeostasis is the
seeking of a steady-state condition, "heterostasis" is the seeking of
maximum stimulation. According to Klopf, all parts of the brain are independently seeking positive stimulation
(or "pleasure") and avoiding negative stimulation (or
"pain"). Klopf also thinks that cognition and emotion coexist and
complement each other, but their relative roles are significantly different:
emotion provides the sense of what the organism needs, while cognition provides
the means for achieving those needs. Back to the beginning of the chapter "Emotion" | Back to the index of all chapters |
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